another friend lost

I can’t believe that I’m having to write such sad news just 16 days since we lost Kabira, but her best buddy Bella has left us as well.

She had some sort of catastrophic event and she went downhill in hours. When she fell over on the futon and didn’t try to get up we knew her time was up and made a frantic phone call to the vet. Our old vet, Dr. Shackleton, who saved her life several years ago when she bloated, helped her make a peaceful crossing to the rainbow bridge.

I’m numb. But yet tears continue to flow.

She lived a good 14 ⅓ years, travelling across Canada, camping, resting her head in every visitor’s lap. She was always gentle with people and puppies alike. She loved Kabira from the first moment they met, so maybe it was grief that sped her departure. Carm likes to think that when she saw Adia she saw a young Kabira and wanted to leave so that she could come back young as well. Kirsten thought that maybe Bella was waiting for Adia to come so that we would be taken care of.

Bella and Kabira are again lying side by side in death as they did in life. We are going to get a crimson maple to plant at the head of their graves.

I’m glad that we have an energetic bundle of red fur to distract us.

I intend to write a nice long post about her, but I can’t right now…

“When he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

~William Shakespeare,